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Summary: A must for new mothers.
Review: A helpful, informative book that explains why ecological breastfeeding does space babies. (Contrary to what I have been told by others.) I am pregnant with #2, and my children will be almost 2 years apart. This is ideal for us, and we spaced our children using the information in this book. I also recommend "Taking Charge of Your Fertility." If you want a natural approach, read this book. Breastfeeding can be hard work at first, but so is parenting in general. To me, this type of mothering is easier than the alternatives, and healthier for all of us!
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Summary: This book has been a tremendous help and support.
Review: Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing provides new mothers with accurate information concerning the child spacing advantage of breastfeeding, but more importantly, it gives them confidence in their abilities to care for their children with love and gentleness.
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Summary: Works for SAHM or working moms
Review: I am a working mom (soon to make whatever sacrifices I must to retire, as I read more and more studies that children don't do as well when the primary caretaker is someone other than a parent) who has used this method of child spacing with great success. I nurse my daughter on demand when I am at home and at night (no getting up for late night feedings, just flip over and go back to sleep!), and pump once during the day at work and so far my periods haven't returned. My daughter is 22 months old and I haven't had a period since 1997! For anyone who is working and wants to use this method, I would recommend combining it with fertility awareness - you can check ccli.org for more info on that - just to make sure, because obviously the chances of fertility returning are greater when you're not with your child day in and day out. The knowledge that constant mother-baby togetherness causes this natural child spacing leads me to greater belief that mothers and baby are biologically designer to be together at all times, and logic tells me (as studies confirm) that if I try to do otherwise, harm comes to both of us. For info on working while ecologically breastfeeding, feel free to email me! jschutz.ee97@gtalumni.org
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Summary: This book gave me the Courage to Continue breastfeeding
Review: I am the mother of a 17-month-old child who loves to nurse and was feeling obligated to wean him because of what others might think of an older child still nursing. This book gave me the courage to follow my natural insticts and let my child decide when to be weaned. This book gave reasons why continued breastfeeding is beneficial to older children as well as younger and also helped me see that I am a good mother. This book is an excellent tool for any breastfeeding mother who cherishes the bonding time breastfeeding provides.After reading this book I was told I would need to wean my child to have a medical procedure. The book gave my the courage to say no. Later it was realized that the certain medical procedure would have been unneccessay. I am so grateful I took the time to read this book, I know it can give you the courage to continue also.
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Summary: A must for new mothers.
Review: I borrowed this book from the Library based on the recommendation of a friend when my daughter was a few months old. I quickly purchased my own copy from amazon.com after reading it. It is an amazing book - it really did change the way I parented my daughter [for the better] and it also really REALLY worked for child spacing purposes. I was fascinated with the information in this book [which I'd never read or even heard of elsewhere] and it was fun and easy to read. I also really REALLY enjoyed being without periods for more than a year too. :) I think any breastfeeding mom would really benefit from reading this book!
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Summary: This book was Life Changing and Enlightening
Review: I borrowed this book from the Library based on the recommendation of a friend when my daughter was a few months old. I quickly purchased my own copy from amazon.com after reading it. It is an amazing book - it really did change the way I parented my daughter [for the better] and it also really REALLY worked for child spacing purposes. I was fascinated with the information in this book [which I'd never read or even heard of elsewhere] and it was fun and easy to read. I also really REALLY enjoyed being without periods for more than a year too. :) I think any breastfeeding mom would really benefit from reading this book!
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Summary: Completely changed the way I viewed motherhood
Review: I found this book through the Couple to Couple League, of which my husband and I are members. We obviously believe what they stand for, so I was interested to read this book by the founder. Before our son was born I planned to breastfeed him. However, I didn't really think my son would use me as a pacifier and I didn't think I would be this "attached" to him, however, because of his "high needs" temprament, he pretty much demanded everything she advocated in the book: frequent breastfeeding (for both nutrition and pacification), co-sleeping, napping with baby, etc. Early in my sons life, I felt as though I was "tied down" to him and was resentful of the enormous amount of attention he required. It was only after reading this book that I felt confident in the choices I was making as a parent. I was reassured that I was doing the very best for my son. By doing what was recommended in the book, I have achieved postpardum amnorrhea for 8 months and counting. The real life readers experiences in the book really validated what I was doing. I whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who wants to do the very best for their baby, and achieve natural child spacing as a result.
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Summary: Eco. breastfeeding doesn't always work.
Review: I guess I'm just blessed with an early return of fertility, despite following the rules. Read this book, if you feel you must, but also keep your NFP charts.
Having children close together is not the end of the world. Maybe God's will?
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Summary: This book changed my life!
Review: I read this book by Sheila Kippley, who is co-founder with her husband, John, of the Couple to Couple League, after we had our fourth child and had just discovered NFP. Mrs. Kippley teaches "ecological breastfeeding" as a means of spacing pregnancies as well as a form of parenting. I had nursed all my babies, but had also supplemented with juices, pacifiers and early (at 4 mos.) solid foods. Now, with this new approach, I began practicing total nursing, baby sleeping and nursing in bed with us at night (the family bed), attachment parenting, no supplemental bottles or pacifiers, and delayed solids. I found that the baby was happier and so was I. No more getting up for night feedings then trying to get the baby back in a crib without waking her. No more toddlers addicted to pacifiers. And the "fringe benefit" of this parenting style was a comfortable spacing of pregnancies. My first totally breast-fed baby was almost three years old before my periods returned! Our reliance on God's Providence in relation to our family size grows with each child, thanks to NFP, the Couple to Couple League and Mrs. Kippley's book. We have put our lives in His hands, knowing that He is the one who opens and shuts the womb and that He gives us the intellect and the will to make decisions about our fertility, but He has the final say.
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Summary: Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing
Review: I read this book in 1978 when I was pregnant with my 3rd child. It changed my life and the life of my children. Sheila helped me find my instinctual mothering abilities that had been lost to many boomers whose own mothers had adopted the post war/ozzie and harriet 50's version of parenting... and that didn't include attachment parenting or breastfeeding! I was 8 months pregnant when I read this book and it was like a whole new world of parenting options opened up to me. I hadn't had any idea that it was possible to let a baby sleep with you. I didn't know that baby swings were just a substitute for mom and that cribs and cradles were too. I had always, always been taught that picking up a crying child was allowing them to manipulate you. And Sheila's book took those societal blinders off my eyes and off my heart. That baby is 24 years old today. And a mommy of her own 15 month old. What is "normal" to her, breastfeeding in bed, sleeping with her child and always answering her needs, is still looked upon with astonishment by others. Her intinctual mothering skills were right at the forefront and ready to do their thing when our little granbaby was born. Her momma already knew how to breastfeed her. Any medical persons involved in their lives have been amazed at what a confident and skilled parent my daughter is at her own tender age and with her first born. Sheila Kippley's book changed my life and my children's. I never realized it was so life changing until I saw my grandaugter and how her mother has learned how to be a mother from me and I learned from this tiny book. THANK YOU SHEILA!
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